With the COVID-19 restrictions to hotels, casinos, and horse racing in New Mexico, the only races for fans to enjoy have been at Ruidoso Downs. The 50 day racing schedule at Ruidoso Down is coming to an end with the final day of racing set for Monday. But fans will not be saying goodbye to the season just yet. At …

The Eunice football program has 15 state title banners hanging in the rafters, the third most in state history (first in 1957 and the most recent last season), 24 championship appearances the second most in New Mexico history, is currently tied for sixth place with 11 other schools for consecutive state championships at three (including an active current three-peat streak), …

As the 2020 fall season approaches, University of Texas at El Paso football coaches are preparing to pick their starting quarterback and former Hobbs Eagle Gavin Hardison is someone they favor. Coaches and players are excited for the upcoming season but they are still worried about COVID-19. The games are going to be different with various precautions in place to …

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Texas Tech fired women’s basketball coach Marlene Stollings on Thursday, a day after a scathing newspaper report alleging a culture of abuse in her program. Athletic director Kirby Hocutt announced the firing in a one-sentence statement while adding that he planned to address the decision Friday. Players made claims of abuse over the past two years …

LOVINGTON — Fifteen-year-old Tatum resident Garrett Flowers took home the grand champion ribbon Tuesday from the Lea County Junior Livestock Show’s swine competition. Garrett’s 217-pound light medium crossbreed pig, the grand champion male named Dias, also won best in breed designation. The youth said getting up every morning since late April to work his pigs helped bring about his success …

The Double T Varsity Club, which is the club in charge of former athletes at Texas Tech, announced its 2020 Texas Tech Hall of Fame class on Thursday. The 2020 class includes football’s Michael Crabtree, Graham Harrell, women’s track and field champion D’Andra Carter, women’s golfer Brooke Lowrance, volleyball player Chris Martin, baseball player Jason Tot-man, and former Hobbs basketball …

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Lou Henson, the plain-spoken coach who took New Mexico State and Illinois to the Final Four during a 21-year career that included nearly 800 victories and a feud with fellow Big Ten coach Bob Knight, has died. He was 88. Henson died Saturday at his home in Champaign and he was buried in a private service …

For the second time in six years, the Hobbs Holiday Tournament has been cancelled. The 2020 version of the tournament would have been the 62nd for the boys and fourth for the girls. However, thanks to the New Mexico Activities Association’s schedule release on Wednesday, there will be no tournament this year. In fact, there will be no tournaments of …

High school athletes in New Mexico were dealt a tough blow Thursday evening when New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced the postponement of fall contact sports football and soccer. As of now, the New Mexico Activities Association, New Mexico’s high school sports governing body, is hoping to play those sports in the spring. Lovington football coach Anthony Gonzales had an …

To the average citizen, Dean Parker and Bobby Fink seem like just a couple of Hobbsans. But, on the national cornhole circuit, the duo is among the top of their class. Going one-step further, of the 232 professional American Cornhole League (ACL) players, Fink is the only member to hail from New Mexico. As for Parker, he is the top …